v2.1.0

• Features
  • Marionette.Object
    • A base class which other classes can extend from. Marionette.Object incorporates many backbone conventions and utilities like initialize and Backbone.Events. It is a user friendly class to base your classes on to get Backbone conventions on any generic class.
  • Add a el reference to the views el from within a behavior instance.
  • ItemViews can now have no template by setting template: false
  • Application objects can now configure their default message channel.
    • This will allow you to configure multiple applications to exist at the same time within an apps without their event bus colliding.
  • Application objects now have the getOption method.
  • Regions now have a hasView method to determine if there is a view within a given region.
  • Views no longer use toJSON directly on models. instead they call into the new overridable methods serializeModel and serializeCollection where are called via serializeData
  • Return chainable objects from more methods to be consistent
    • Application: emptyRegions
    • Application: removeRegion
    • CollectionView renderChildView
    • Controller new
    • LayoutView destroy
    • Region reset
    • Region attachView
    • Region empty
    • RegionManager destroy
    • RegionMananger emptyRegions (now returns regions)
    • RegionMananger removeRegions (now returns regions)
    • RegionMananger removeRegion (now returns region)
    • View destroy
    • View undelegateEvents
    • View delegateEvents
  • RegionManager addRegions now accepts a function that returns a region definition in addition to a region definition object
    • This extends to Marionette.Application’s and CompositeView’s regions properties
  • Added CollectionView resortView
    • Override this method on a subclass of CollectionView to provide custom logic for rendering after sorting the collection.
  • View instance is now passed as a third argument to Marionette.Renderer.render
  • Add getRegionMananger to Application
• Fixes
  • CollectionView now maintains proper order when adding a mode
  • Fix component.js path
  • Prevent AppRouter from erroring when appRoutes are passed into the router constructor as an option.
  • UI hash keys now only allow documented syntax, enforcing @ui.stuff instead of @ui<ANY_CHAR>stuff